Re: [Openvpn-users] New subnet topology feature ready for testing

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@xxxxxxxxx>]

James Yonan wrote:
> OpenVPN Addressing Topology
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> However, now I've put together a brand new topology, called "topology
> subnet".  This topology is very intuitive, like the "dev tap" topology
> where each client gets a single IP address from a pool, the server gets
> the .1 address, clients get .2, .3, .4, etc., and all clients and the
> server can communicate by virtue of possessing a single IP address taken
> out of the shared VPN subnet.  Plus -- a very cool property of this
> feature is that it works on Windows clients as well as any *nix system
> which supports tun interfaces being configured by ifconfig with an
> IP/netmask rather than the usual local and remote endpoint (Linux supports 
> this, I haven't tried any of the BSDs yet).

it's amazing feature! thanks!!!

> Other interesting features
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>
> "redirect-gateway bypass-dhcp" gets around the problem of DHCP packets 
> to the local DHCP server being incorrectly routed into the tunnel.

one quick question without reading the whole docs.
i always like to know my vpn enpoint has a static ip address so if i'd 
like to access joe's vpn i can simply use joe.vpn.company.com name. is 
it possible to use this new subnet topology and somehow staticaly define 
endpoint's ip address? the best would be if i can use a central internal 
dhcp server which can give ip, subnet, dns and other address to the vpn 
clients automaticaly. is it possible with linux and windows clients?

> Merging Schedule
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>
> With sufficient testing, this code will be a candidate for inclusion in 
> 2.1 or higher, and will be applicable to the 2.0.x branch via manual 
> merging.  While this patch is not huge, it's deep enough that I don't plan 
> on merging it in 2.0.x anytime soon.

i'd like to see some kind of early 2.1 or 2.1rc release since we can 
create rpm packages this and test it.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"